Fatal Crash on Major Highway Ends in Massive Explosion

A truck carrying more than 40 tonnes of chemicals has exploded, with the shock waves felt kilometres away, after a fatal crash closed a major highway. The male driver of a ute died in the fiery head-on collision with a B-double semi-trailer on the Bruce Highway, near Bororen in central Queensland, early on Aug. 30. The truck was carrying 42.5 tonnes of ammonium nitrate, a chemical commonly used in fertilisers. The crash, which occurred just after 5am, sparked an emergency alert, with residents within a 2.5 kilometre exclusion zone told to leave immediately. About 49 people evacuated to the nearby town of Bororen after police doorknocked the area....